ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,885, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CathWorks Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).

"Vascular selection from images" was invented by Guy Lavi (Moshav Mishmeret, Israel), Ofek Shilon (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Sarit Semo (RaAnana, Israel), Omri Harish (Zur Yigal, Israel) and Asaf Shimshovitz (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for manually assisted definition of vascular features are described. In some embodiments, a method provides for editing of vascular paths by enabling a user to drag an erroneously segmented region of a selected vascular path into alignment with a more correctly segmented position that is depic...